A tough look at current civil rights leadership

1:07 PM,
Aug. 8, 2013

05/26/06 --- Joe Cordill Guest columnist Shane Bevel/The Times

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Joe Cordill
Guest Columnist

At the outset let me stipulate that criticism of the current civil rights leadership by a white person is likely to be taken with due skepticism. Having said this, however, I believe there are some valid criticisms to be aired.

For starters, it is depressing to me to see the decline in leadership quality from such towering giants as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandella, Booker Washington or Medgar Evers to the likes of Al "Charlatan." How is it that the man who attempted to perpetuate the Tawana Brawley hoax; who was the organizer of the anti-Semitic Crown Heights riots that resulted in the death ...